This morning my hike would take me to a northeast gate hoping to see a coyote on the ice. Hiking along with light snow falling, I decided to slip into the woods and stand for a bit. My view was overlooking an area with open hardwoods and a stonewall. No breeze at all ,so my scent was little concern, or so I thought! Not too much time had passed, when I hear the crunching of footsteps breaking the iced over oak leaves behind me. First thing I think of it’s a deer. Before I could give it a second thought, their stood a beautiful coyote not 12 to 15 feet away from me. It was looking directly away from me when it caught my scent. The coyote threw its head back, stood on two legs as it worked it nose to my direction. When landing back on all four feet we were looking directly at each other. The sharpness of the yellowish brown eyes and black whiskers where that of a glance before the coyote ran about 40 yards out before turning and looking back then disappearing over the ridge.
No chance for a picture, but what a morning!
Jim
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